Denial of Self

In the psyche of Spiritual Emergence, we sometimes think it wise to question our own validity, integrity and human-ness, by self imposing restrictions regarding our behaviour, personal interactions with those around us, and God, or, for those who wish, our Higher Selves.

We meditate, attempt close communion with our Higher Selves and listen carefully to the messages that seems to offer us guidance and plan our road to en-lightenment.

We need to exercise extreme caution, in this initial phase of discovery. Very often, what we think is the Higher Self, is simply the sub-conscious telling us how to behave, through it’s own enculturization. And needless to say, the ego also contributes with it’s own little plan of action.

I am mentioning this, as a client asked me the other day about fasting, giving up some of life’s little pleasures, and abstaining from sexual contact with her husband for 40 days. Fasting, abstaining from sexual interaction, denying the Self of life’s simple little pleasures, is not God’s plan for our journey. God does not impose restrictions on his human children.

We have free will. This initial impulse is simply the Ego. The ego is quite happy with who and what it is, and cannot understand or rationalize this new emerging spirituality. So, it revolts. In this effort, it tries to alienate us from this new experience, in order to preserve it’s own world. So it imposes guilt and fear. Nasty, clever little trick. Fear, for if we do not comply, we are doomed. Guilt, for our sins, which must be cleansed.

Fasting is difficult. It requires from us discipline and denial of everything we have come to accept as part of our lives. Denying ourselves from the earth experience is denying us our own free will and sovereignity.

The need to fast must come from deep inside the Self. It must be a realization or need that arises out of a Love for Self, not penance for sins committed. There is no debt to be paid. Almost every mystic that I know of, has gone into isolation to fast, out of the public eye, expressing the need for communion with God and Universal Consciousness.

Fasting also have many expressions. Simply going deep within, is a way of fasting. Meditation, is a way of fasting. In our minds, fasting, as taught by the doctrines of the secular environment, is payment for sins, or cleansing of the sins from the body and mind. This implies judgement.

God does not judge. Spirit does not judge. Our Higher Selves does not judge. They are in support of our spiritual emergence.

Let fasting, in it’s various expressions, emerge as a true need from within, and not the need to either please doctrines, the ego impulses, or those who pronounce it as a necessary cleansing in order to attain spiritual enlighten-ment. This narrow road doctrine is neither uplifting nor beneficial.

Altering our behaviour patterns must come from true realization, true need, from within. Let it unfold in time. There is no rush. We are all on the road back into the Light.

Much Love